Ebook {Epub PDF} Down the Common: A Year in the Life of a Medieval Woman by Ann Baer

Ann Baer has produced a sensitive, knowledgeable month-by-month account of the hardships suffered by Marion and Peter Carpenter, set from March through the following February of one year of their struggle for existence in Medieval England Ann Baer has given the world an immeasurable gift with the writing of Down the Common/5(68). Down the Common. Quietly contemplative and informative, Baer's understated narrative records one day in each month of a year in the life of Marion, an ordinary peasant woman in medieval England.  · Originally published in as Down On The Common, Ann Baer’s Medieval Woman is a novel that covers a year in the life of Marion, a peasant woman living in an unspecified rural English village during medieval times, with her husband Peter Carpenter and their two children. Baer’s novel was considered so accurate that it is now – at least in Australia – being marketed as a non-fiction /5.

The author, Ann Baer, spent many years of her life researching this period, resulting in this beautifully written book based around a fictional woman, Marion, and her family. Reading this book you get to realize the hardships endured, and that the people viewed the next village and beyond a world which few, if any, got to see. Compare book prices from over , booksellers. Find Down the Common: A Year in the Life of a Medieval Wo () by Baer, Ann. Down the Common: A Year in the Life of a Medieval Woman. Ann Baer. Literature. Margaret Bailey. . This book puts you smack down in a reality we'll never experience but which many of our ancestors did. The main character, a serf on a small farm in rural England, has a husband and a couple of children and lives in a one-room shack.

A truly beautiful story that chronicles one year in the life of Marion, a wife and mother living in Medieval times in England. The book, by Anna Baer, begins in March, and then proceeds chapter by chapter through the year. A year in the life of a peasant woman in medieval England is vividly evoked in this extraordinary portrait of Marion, a carpenter’s wife, and her extended family. Based on years of research, Ann Baer brings to life the reality of a world that has been lost. Down the Common: A Year in the Life of a Medieval Woman by Baer, Ann. M. Evans and Company, Inc, Second Printing. Paperback. Good. Softcovers have different cover art. A nice softcover copy with a tight and square binding. Softcovers are very good. Text is clean but has mildly yellowed. Careful packaging and fast shipping.